Most people who see Myuran Sukumaran: Another Day in Paradise, opening today as part of the Sydney Festival, will already have a strong opinion on the artist and his death – but a few may have their minds changed.

In All the Sex I’ve Ever Had six Sydneysiders over 60 talk frankly about love, life and everything in between.
Prudence UptonJanuary 22, 2016

Swedish director Kay Pollak’s film As It is in Heaven (2004) climaxes at a point of musical bliss which is both chaotic and profoundly unifying. Rather than singing a few polished songs with energy in…

The performers in Nothing To Lose challenge viewers to rethink their ideas about bodies and beauty. Photo: Toby Burrows.
Sydney FestivalJanuary 23, 2015

It may seem odd, and a touch ironic, that the act of taking-up-space is of concern to a fierce-fat-femme like Kelli Jean Drinkwater. Speaking about her current collaboration with Force Majeure and choreographer/director…

Making a show for kids that’s not going to bore grown-ups a challenge.
Prudence Upton/Sydney FestivalJanuary 23, 2015

The kids program for Sydney Festival has been fun and varied this year, but a highlight was Ali McGregor’s Jazzamatazz!. The cabaret singer staged her set in the Aurora Room, a mini-Speigeltent with a…

On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco is a marriage between words and music.
Pascal Victor/Sydney FestivalJanuary 23, 2015

At least four metronomes ticked away at various points on the stage as the audience seated itself for last night’s opening performance of Anton Chekhov’s On The Harmful Effects of Tobacco at the Sydney…

This week, as part of Sydney Festival’s Bankstown: Live program, Michael Mohammed Ahmad will present a stage-adaptation of his debut novel. The Tribe, published in 2014, tells the story of three generations…

In Wot? No Fish!! Braverman made the theatre into a kind of living room, offering the audience gefilte fish with chrein sauce.
Sydney FestivalJanuary 21, 2015

During an artist talk just an hour before performing Wot? No Fish!! on Saturday at the Sydney Festival, English writer/actor Danny Braverman observed that as an artist he seeks “to foreground universals…

Whenever I approach mass cultural events – especially ones that seem to bear the conceit that they are “higher” and more culturally valuable than, say, a comic book fair – I am reminded of two of the 20th…

Falling Through the Clouds speaks to a future dystopic existence … and then some.
Jarrad Seng/Sydney FestivalJanuary 19, 2015

There is a flock of swallows that swoops low across the clifftop nearby. This kind of joyful flight, that windy rush of ornithological freedom, is at the heart of Perth Theatre Company The Last Great Hunt’s…

At Beat The Drum, announcers and musicians from the 40-year history of Australia’s youth broadcaster took to the stage.
Liz GuiffreJanuary 19, 2015

Today, Triple J celebrates its 40th birthday. Over four decades, the youth broadcaster has built up a proud history of outside broadcasts and regional concerts. As Double J the station staged some of the…

I Guess if the Stage Exploded … a chance to delve into the fundamentally mysterious nature of memory-making.
Laura Montag/Sydney FestivalJanuary 19, 2015

There’s a singular kind of hush that comes over an audience when the figure on stage takes off her shoes and steps into a bucket of flour. But this hush is even more apparent as the actor, now flour-footed…

In Darkness and Light, the long tradition of organ music is combined with a visual world created by Australian artist Lynette Wallworth.
Sydney FestivalJanuary 16, 2015

The dramatic, temperamental sound of the organ joined with the lush visuals of contemporary video is not an obvious combination. They are brought together in Darkness and Light, a work by two collaborators…

At the forefront of a renaissance of Brazilian pop-samba - and its commercial success - is Seu Jorge.
Alisson Sellaro/FlickrJanuary 13, 2015

One evening ten years ago I was walking in pouring rain down the streets of Cidade Baixa in downtown Porto Alegre, Brazil. I went into a music store to look around and, to my surprise, the two-storey building…

The opening night of Masquerade at the Sydney Opera House last Friday attracted a rather higher number of under-12s than might usually be expected for Australia’s theatre demographic – and it was a delightful…